DAUCUS. 
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Tribe VI. Daucinece. 
14. Daucus L. 
1. D. Carota L. Cenoula or Cenoura. 
Wliole pi. hoary strigosely pubescent or hispid ; st. erect spa- 
ringly and erectly branched, altogether (with the ped.) rough 
and rejlexedly hispid or strigose, often hirsute towards the base ; 
1. hispid oblong or ovate-oblong 3-4-pinnatisect ; lfts. ovate or 
ovate-oblong membranous leafy deeply cut and toothed, teeth 
ovate or ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate mucronate ; umbels 
very broad and large on long hispid stalks not dilated at top, 
with a large stalked Jleshy central abortive atropurpureous fl., 
hollow with the rays very unequal hispid and strongly incurved 
in fir., the outer fl. large radiant ; gen. inv. pectinately 1-2-pin- 
nate, partial pinnately 3-5-fid or simple as long as the rays, 
segments linear; bristles of the oblong-oval fr. equalling its 
breadth distinct straight slender compresso-subulate spreading, 
minutely capitulate and stellately glochidiate. — Linn. Sp. PI. 
348; Desf. i. 240; Brot. i. 444; EB. t. 1174; Sm. E. Fl. ii. 39; 
DC. iv. 211; Koch 343; Bab. 148. D. polygamus Gouan, DC. 
iv. 212 P; Seub. Fl. Az. 42? I). Carota (3. Pers. Ench. i. 307 
(“ excl. syn. Jacq.” DC.) ? I). aureus WB. ! ii. 165 ; Bourg. ! 
PI. Can. no. 818 in BH. (not Desf.). D. parviflorus Bourg.! 
PI. Can. no. 401 in BH. (not Desf.); WB. ii. 164? D. neg - 
lectus a. asperocaidon Lowe Novit. 20 or 542. Pastinaca sylves- 
tris tenuifolia Ger. (ed. 1597) 873 (ic. opt.). — Herb. ann. Mad. 
reg. 1, rrr. In barren rocky or stony places near and 200- 
500 ft. above the sea plentifully on the W. brink of the Rib. de 
S. Gon^alo a little out of Funchal to the E. along the Cani^o 
road. March-May. — Root strong somewhat woody tap-shaped 
often as thick as the forefinger at the crown, whitish, smelling 
like garden-carrots. Whole pi. bristly with short stiff strigose 
whitish hairs. Foliage rather dull dark gr. and somewhat grey 
or hoary. St. 1-2 ft. high erect and straight or only slightly 
flexuose, scarcely more than once or twice erectly branched 
above and rarely from the base, strigose-hispid all the way up 
with short spreading whitish hairs becoming longer more co- 
pious and strongly defiexed towards its base. L: hispid chiefly 
beneath, and on their rachises, nerves and petioles, with copious 
short bristles ; uppermost lfts. nearly or quite smooth on the 
upper side. Lfts. of all the 1. close or crowded leafy and their 
teeth or ultimate segm. even in the uppermost 1. as broadly and 
shortly ovate or lanceolate as in the lower and not at all re- 
mote or elongately linear-lanceolate as they are usually in I). 
Carota L. Ped. of umbels very long, round striated thickly 
strigose-hispid all their length, simple and not dilated at top. 
Umbels large broad confluent, in bud and in fr. concave, in n. 
